Wednesday's Sound Off

Don’t you think it’s a little funny that Obama when bin Laden was killed he had all kinds of pictures of him in the ready room watching it live and in action. We are getting terrorists on the run. Maybe that is why he has classified Fort Hood as a workplace shooting rather than a terrorist attack. And maybe that’s why he went to bed when Benghazi was burning and Americans were being killed. Now he can honestly say no terrorist attack took place during my watch.

It’s very troubling to hear the Republicans’ response to the president’s State of the Union Address. The GOP is against raising the minimum wage. They are also against helping people work but live way below the poverty level. Something is wrong with this picture.

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Did you hear about the latest at 26 N. Charlotte St. in Pottstown? Company Cakes and lots more for every occasion. So tasteful and unbelievable. The secret is out. They’re fabulous.

For the senior citizen who can’t get a hold of his local bank, what you ought to do is next time you go to the bank ask for a card from the bank manager or assistant which has the local bank’s number. They don’t publish it in the newspaper but your bank officer should give you their card with their number and then there will be no problem reaching your branch.

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Regarding the 5-year-old little girl who was abducted from a school by a stranger, I don’t understand this because if I came to school, my children would know this is their mother. The problem was because of the way she dressed and her face was covered. I think the schools should make a rule that if you come to pick up your child, at least you do not have your face covered. These children need to be able to verify that it’s a parent or relative picking them up.

Way to go Kathleen Kane our attorney general of Pennsylvania. She reversed Gov. Corbett’s ruling to change the privatization of the state’s lottery system for 20 to 30 years to a foreign company. Thank God she’s in office.

LONG LIVED IN LIMERICK

To Allen Ritz regarding what am I missing? What you’re missing is the homeowner still has a mortgage to pay which could possibly be more than the $7,000 of income. So get your facts straight once again.

In regards to the problems with the postal service going down to a five-day delivery because of losing money, one way to fix the problem is to get outside private consultants into that system. It’s a culture of inefficiency, too many people doing too few things. You need outside people in there to make it run more like UPS and FEDEX. We need to see postal workers moving, not shuffling their feet. It needs to be changed in order to run more efficiently.

To the woman Friday morning on Pine Land Road, you hit my cat. He was crossing the street to go from one of my properties to another. Did you put down the cell phone long enough to check if he was dead or did you just keep on talking? I ran out on the road but you just kept going. He may just be a barn cat to you but I do care about them and they’re all well fed and taken care of. You could have come and knocked on the door, the lights were on.

Allen Ritz, you don’t understand. Well understand this. The type of house spoken about with a $7,000 a year tax, rented for $1,200 a month, add the $7,000 would have to rent for $1,900 a month if there is a mortgage on that. So don’t start saying that that’s an income. It’s not an income. You need to take a good hard look at the big picture because you’re not.

Isn’t it amazing how every morning in The Mercury you read where somebody’s trying to spend more taxpayer money at a time when unemployment is out of control and the jobs are just not there. If you want to voice your opinion that you are fed up, State Sen. John Rafferty 610-469-8390, Congressman Jim Gerlach 610-594-1415 and to show that I’m not really trying to make it a Republican issue here is the White House at 1-202-456-1414, ask for the comment line.

Kudos to Attorney General Kane for stopping Corbett’s giveaway of the Pennsylvania Lottery system to a U.K. company. This will save Pennsylvania jobs and keep Pennsylvania money in the U.S. She did the right thing.

I agree with the Sound Off that when you put a comment in, you should sign your name. Don’t be ashamed of what you write.